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Areas of Expertise

Visual psychophysics

Degrees

PhD, University of California, Irvine

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., & Holcombe, A. (2000). Tracking an object through feature-space. Nature, 408, 196-199.
• Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2009). How to compare apples and oranges: Infants' object identification tested with equally salient shape, luminance and color changes. Infancy, 14, 222-43.
• Blaser, E., Shepard, T. (2009). Maximal motion aftereffects in spite of diverted awareness. Vision Research, 49(10), 1174-81.
• Blaser, E. & Kaldy, Z. (2010). Infants get five stars on iconic memory tests: A partial report test of 6-month-old infants' iconic memory capacity. Psychological Science, 21, 1643-1645.

Additional Information

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Dr. Blaser studies human perception, specifically visual psychophysics. Some current studies focus on visual attention (how do you program your mental ‘autopilot’ for complicated visual tasks, such as driving?), depth and scale perception (might there be ‘clues’ to how big an object is, hidden in the texture on that object’s surface?), perceptual learning (when you learn a task, how should we characterize the underlying neural changes?), and cognitive development (which features - color, shape, size, texture - do infants rely on most for remembering and comparing ?).

TEACHING:

Perception (Psych 355); Advanced Visual Perception (Psych 451); Introduction to Cognitive Science (Psych/CS L271).